--- title: The wolf enquires if he has gone to sleep, but is told that he is aw… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics description: The wolf enquires if he has gone to sleep, but is told that he is awake, but engrossed by the question as to "which folks are there most of in the world--the living or the dead." Who acts: wolf, folks. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGEN --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/61/88/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collecti…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/) / [Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/61/) / 88 # Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 6, sentence 88 The wolf enquires if he has gone to sleep, but is told that he is awake, but engrossed by the question as to "which folks are there most of in the world--the living or the dead." **Who acts:** wolf, folks · **What happens:** enquire, go, sleep, tell, be, engross · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wolf, folks), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg22373:61:88 # text = The wolf enquires if he has gone to sleep, but is told that he is awake, but engrossed by the question as to "which folks are there most of in the world--the living or the dead." 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 wolf wolf NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 enquires enquire VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 if if SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ _ 5 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 6 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 7 gone go VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 3 advcl _ _ 8 to to PART TO _ 9 mark _ _ 9 sleep sleep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 11 but but CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 12 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 aux:pass _ _ 13 told tell VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 parataxis _ _ 14 that that SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 15 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 16 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 cop _ _ 17 awake awake ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 but but CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 engrossed engross VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 13 conj _ _ 21 by by ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 question question NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 24 as as SCONJ IN _ 30 mark _ _ 25 to to PART TO _ 30 mark _ _ 26 " " PUNCT `` _ 30 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 27 which which DET WDT PronType=Int 28 det _ _ 28 folks folk NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 nsubj _ _ 29 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 cop _ _ 30 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 20 advcl _ _ 31 most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 30 obl _ _ 32 of of ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 33 in in ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 36 -- -- PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 living living NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 parataxis _ _ 39 or or CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 dead dead ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 43 " " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **enquire** *speech: other* | present | the wolf | | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **go** *a condition, not said to happen* | present · perfect | wolf | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **sleep** | to-infinitive | wolf *not said here* | | | | | | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present · passive | | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: clause=Topic | | 5 | **is** | present | wolf | | | | | awake *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **engross** | participle | | | | | | by the question | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 7 | **is** *in a quote* | present | which folks | | | | | most of the world *obl*; there *property* | tree rules | One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree. **Text:** «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Project Gutenberg book 22373 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 87](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/61/87/) - next →: [sentence 89](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/61/89/) - ↑ back to [Chapter VI. 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